| Learn by heart |
MEMORISE |
| Medical speciality dealing with cancer |
ONCOLOGY |
| Mock, sneer at |
DERIDE |
| Nirvana, paradise |
HEAVEN |
| Nothing more than a small pond |
MERE |
| One suffers from memory loss |
AMNESIAC |
| Provisional share certificates |
SCRIPS |
| Put money into in hopes of a return |
INVEST |
| Rats and mice, say |
RODENTS |
| Shaped lumps of bread |
LOAVES |
| Signed agreement to do something |
COVENANT |
| Single reed woodwind instrument |
CLARINET |
| Small silvery sea-fish |
HERRING |
| Stated emphatically |
DECLARED |
| They protect |
GUARDS |
| Tried hard to be as good as someone |
EMULATED |